Language code: is

Technical information about ISO 639 language code is

The table below provides technical details for the Icelandic language, designated by the is code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

is

Name

Official

Icelandic

Native

Íslenska

Family
Germanic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Icelandic belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is the official language in Iceland and is written using the Latin script, specifically the Icelandic alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 300,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Icelandic speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

is-IS Icelandic (Iceland)

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